FNS 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Job Design, Industrial Engineering
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*easy cleaned, adjustable, properly cleaned, functioning, does not pose physical hazard. Floors: covering materials for floors, walls, and ceilings should be selected for ease of cleaning and maintenance and for appearance. Customers are sensitive to dusty drapes, streaked or grimy windows, smudged or cracked walls, cobwebbed ceilings, loose floor tiles, and a heavily: dining room floors need continuously cleaned. Work design - industrial engineering term for productivity improvement to assist the worker to work more efficiently without expending more effort. Material movement - good design will increase efficiency and decrease activities that do not add appreciable value to the end product. Principles of motion economy - pertain to the human body - use both hands, coordination of hands and eyes, and continuous motion are aimed specifically at reducing the effort energy required to do the job.